“So, the API which has easily 10 times more traffic than the website, has been really very important to us.”
A post for the web-designers out there. Rejoice, for the blogosphere bears good news today - Webkit (the engine behind Safari) joins Opera in supporting @font-face rules in nightly builds. This means it includes the necessary functionality to link to downloadable fonts from CSS - or to put it short: typographic freedom (within licensing […]
You just don’t understand how important Adeo Ressi is [TheFunded.com]
Adeo Ressi wants you to know that he’s not just the pseudonymous “Ted,” founding member of TheFunded.com, the venture-capitalist rating site. The 6′5″ Ressi, who resembles a David Cross/Mr. Clean hybrid, sincerely believes that being “Ted” is a feat which which should be celebrated by having his likeness emblazoned on the nearest mountain. But how’s his site doing as a business?
He’s not making any money off of it. I asked where he wants it to be in five years. “Owned by a large media company,” he replied, only half jokingly. (Hey, he sold Total New York to AOL a couple bubbles ago.) Ressi namechecked Dow Jones as his preferred owner. Meanwhile, he has this little problem where he can’t get VC backing. When pressed, he admitted the site is a “charity case,” and there’s “not enough money to make a living off of it.” Still, while a quick QuantCast lookup shows TheFunded far behind Fake Steve Jobs in readership, Ressi thinks he’s the man of the moment. His reaction to Wired’s 3,500-word feature story in the latest issue? They should have put him on the cover. He’s totally serious about that.
The Less Regulation Route to Network Neutrality
Earlier today Kristen
wrote about Vuze, the IPTV network and it’s petition of the FCC to prevent Comcast and other network operators from acting in ways that aren’t network neutral. As anyone who read my less-than-favorable to Comcast coverage can tell you, I’m not a big fan of companies that defy the principles of network […]